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I couldn't stop staring at it... a car, with shiny golden wheels, like massive Spanish doubloons, a high prow and stern and a full rig of sail, about 5 metres tall, mounted on the roof.
Cannon sprouted from the black timber sides, their unblinking muzzles staring down at me, as the car heeled over
and changed lanes, tacking imperiously across three lanes of traffic.
Plastered across the stern boards were the requisite collection of bumper stickers, most incorporating the skull and crossbones. The name CORSAIR was emblazoned in fancy gold lettering across her stern.
The driver, high on the deck, doffed his tricorn hat, while his parrot bobbed up and down on his shoulder, screeching. A lilting shanty boomed from the concealed speakers of the sound system.
I looked down at my hands, yearning for the feel of warm, worn, wooden spokes under my hands and the the salty tang of the sea in my nostrils, as I commuted to work.
Supermarket Pirates
Supermarket_20Pirates
... reminds me of this idea [ixnaum, Sep 20 2005]
UnaBubba Carpools To Work
http://www.thewiggl...yorknov2002/27.html
[jurist, Sep 20 2005]
The Moby Duck, Scourge of the Seven Lanes
http://www.seafairp.../pages/IMG_0238.htm
[jurist, Sep 20 2005]
Not quite the monster truck I had envisioned.
http://www.jarrin.n...2-89406bab9eb2.html
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Sep 20 2005]
For [Rayford Steele]: 1959 Edsel Corsair
http://images.googl...en%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG
Hence the phrase, "tempting the fates." [jurist, Sep 24 2005]
Like this?
http://i88.photobuc...ieCoetzee/jolly.jpg
[Ned_Ludd, Jan 22 2007]
[link]
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Obligatory pirate idea for Talk Like a Pirate Day. |
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Yeah, but you know you'd drive one, too. |
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I don't get these pirate ideas :-) I'll stay neutral until I find out how it feels to have some pirate pull up beside me and plunder the trunk of my car at 80 km/h during my next car trip. |
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The pirate isn't going to plunder your car. He just has a car that looks like a pirate ship, and is dressed in full regalia. |
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Nothing more sinister than a company that builds and sells Pirate Cars to the public. |
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//The pirate isn't going to plunder your car// |
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Sure ... and I'll trust you -- why? If it looks like a pirate, talks like a pirate and smells like a pirate ... it is a pirate |
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When you buy one of these cars, how do
you know you're getting the genuine
article and not some fake? |
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Easy, Ian. It will have a sticker on it, reassuring you that it's the genuine article. |
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If it looks like a pirate, talks like a pirate and smells like a pirate ...it's Johnny Depp? (drool) |
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I didn't say I wouldn't drive one. Hell yes
I would. I just said it was obligatory. |
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There should be special Pirate lanes, too. |
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You wouldn't get any stick from the other paraents turning up in their 4x4's if you delivered your kids in one of these. I can tell you! |
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[2 fries shy of a happy meal] I think you'll find it's a treasonable offence to fly the Jolly Roger on the Queen's Highways. They'll keelhaul you! |
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I would wear the parrot. Except, I wonder about the disposal of the parrot's excrement...exactly where does it go? I suppose I'm just not pirate material. |
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//Except, I wonder about the disposal of the parrot's excrement...exactly where does it go?// |
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This is the halfbakery... it goes to fuel the vehicles, silly. |
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Don't we have some Burning Man devotees here? They like bizarre cars. |
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If I remember, I'll post a picture of the Yacht Club, just down the road from where I'm writing, which has several galleons sticking out of its frontage. No, wait, I didn't bring a camera today - you'll have to wait till next week. |
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Parrot shit, for $3.30 a galleon? They can't be serious! |
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//Don't we have some Burning Man devotees here?// |
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Yep, a few of them use a build area which is called "The Shipyard" |
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Isn't there a TV show about building cars out of junk? |
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//Isn't there a TV show about building cars out of junk?// |
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"Scrapyard challenge" in the UK. |
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What do you call a parrot that sits on a pirate's shoulder saying "Pieces of seven! Pieces of seven!"? |
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I don't know [Wagster] what DO you call a parrot that sits on a pirate's shoulder saying "Pieces of seven! Pieces of seven!"? |
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<slight breeze> <tumbleweed rolls by> <distant church bell tolls> |
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Tell us more about the cannons... |
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Just so you know, the engine I'm part of the design effort on is corporately named the Corsair program. |
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Edsel is starting up the line again, [RS]? That seems to be tempting the fates. |
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Baked? UB, did you go to Burning Man? |
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Edsel? I work for the Krauts these days. |
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I saw a Monte Carlo type car on the freeway several months ago - It had (I can only assume) a fake 50 cal mounted on the passenger's side front fender. |
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I was a bit hung over, so my wife was driving, & by the time the absurdity of this registered in my mind the car had passed us up at about 85 mph. |
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I told her about it excitedly & she tried her best to catch up with it, but the traffic was just too much. |
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[RS] Any plans on bringing back the Opel? |
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[link] for [Rayford]: You're expected to know this sort of automotive trivia. |
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[elhigh], no. It's a giant circle jerk for American SNAGs (Sensitive New Age Guys) and I'm an Australian Caring, Understanding Nineties Type. |
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I should pass that one along. The way this powertrain program is run, it deserves to be plunked into the Edsel category. I thought you were referring to Edsel Ford, the man, (who of course is long since dead). |
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